Wintertide

I am an echo

A lightless beacon

In a cutting storm

An empty shell within a maze

Straying back and forth

A thought that never vanished

A wound that would never heal

I have been northbound months and years in hiemal

Winds that cut like spells briskly they enfold

The leafless tree

This will be the end of all

Endless nights

A barren heart

In dreadful morrow

Defoliation

And here I am

In my wintertide of faith

What have I become?

I'm a shadow!

A relentless mirage dire circles of reminiscence

So distant now what once did lie for clear at hands

A rout I can't atone

A wound that would never heal

(Never heal)

Counting hours, years in desolate

Who chose failure now will have to live with it

Dreams ignite

And die

By the fireside

And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries

In a slumber, in a dream, in the glistening white I see

And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries

In a slumber, in a dream, in the glistening white I see

And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries

In the welkin, in a breeze, in crystalline euphony

But tonight only clamour and dismay are echoing

Over firn and ice and back they bring

All them voices muttering

Of chagrin and defeat

I was in reach of orb and crown

Could be king to the fire

I could have ruled in purple gown

Now all that's left is ire

Believe

A dismal truth

In nards that no Sun has ever seen

No further tales will ever sever

The hour's growing late for the weak and faint-at-heart

A comfort never earned, deserved

Coward

Coward

Coward

Coward

Frail

Deceit

Defeat

Deceit

Frail

Deceit

Defeat

Deceit

Frail

Defeat

Deceit

Defeat

Deceit

Frail

Defeat

Deceit

Defeat

Deceit

Frail

Defeat

Deceit

Frail

Defeat

Deceit

Frail

Defeat

Frail

Deceit

Frail

Deceit

Frail

Defeat

Deceit

In my woe

A world aglow

Let go of me

Dreams ignite

And then they die

Let go of me

Forever and a day

Right here

This will be the end of you

A feather to the four winds

A sparrow to the Sun

In my woe

A world aglow

Let go of me

Let go of me

Dreams ignite

And then they die

Let go of me

Let go of me

Let go of me

And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries

In a slumber, in a dream, in the glistening white I see

And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries

In the welkin, in a breeze, in crystalline euphony

And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries

In the welkin, in a breeze, in crystalline euphony

Whenever I close my eyes

And stare into the Sun

Whenever in memories

Through golden fields we run

In every waking sleep

In every time of need

Whenever the soul will weep

Carry on

Whenever I close my eyes

And stare into the Sun

Whenever in memories

Through golden fields we run

In every waking sleep

In every time of need

Whenever the soul will weep

Carry on

Here in my wintertide

Here in my wintertide

Of faith

Here in my wintertide

Here in my wintertide

Of faith